My warranty is about to expire and I'm thinking about selling my 2001 CLK 430 with 37K miles on it. It has been mechanically strong in the drivetrain dept but it has had several minor warranty repairs (speedo, gas level sensor, side view mirrors, etc).

My buddy has a 2001 C240 with a 6sp manual trans with about 40K miles and his transmission gave out last year, plus he had a huge number of electric problems.

Both he and I are shopping for new cars, but both of us would like to keep our cars to use for a few more years. His car is one of the first of the new C classes and my car was one of the last of the CLKs, so the bugs are probably worked out on my car and less so on his.

How many people have kept their CLKs pass the warranty period and has there been many problems?

 

Why don't you purchase an extended warranty if you are concerned? I don't know this first hand, but was told that AAA's platinum extended warranty is actually pretty good.

 

I have over 83,000 miles with no troubles at all. I had the initial "no start" trouble. But that is simply lubing the starter, which my mechanic has done twice...costs about an extra $60. Seems to occur about once a year maybe.

It has been trouble free since I've owned it and has the usual interior noises that accompany most CLK's. I also made the mistake of putting new Pirelli P6000 tires on recently. These tires are so loud I think I am going to take them off and put something different on after only a month of driving these! argh!

Anyway, no troubles here on 83,000+ miles! I just want a newer CLK430 or the 55!

Take care!

 

105k miles on my '00 430 and no problems (knock on wood). I love the car and have maintained it pretty meticulously since I bought it. I can't believe I'll have had it for 5 years in December

 

For nearly what you will pay in sales tax alone on a new car, you can go to a Chrysler Dealership and buy the Chrysler Maximum Care Warranty 7-100,000 bumper to bumper, for about 3000.00
( Same Co. as MBz ), thats another 4yrs on your warranty, at the price of about 62.50 per month, and be able to sleep at night, the other thing is, it is so hard to find another car better looking than what you have, so many of the new one's are kinda chic cars, just my 0.2

 

That's not a bad idea. I love my CLK (even with all those little gremlims running around). I'll look into the Chrysler extended warranty. I was told that you can only buy an extended warranty if the car is less than one year old. I also heard that a warranty is several thousands of dollars, but with the number of warranty repairs my little black CLK has suffered, I imagine that all those visits have easily amounted to several thousand of dollars.

I have wrestled with the W209's looks for so long, but I was thinking about upgrading to either the CLK 55 (don't care for the styling or the chrome bits), a stripped down 2004 SL 500 or the soon to be discontinued Porsche 996 (and hopefully get a $10,000 discount off a blk/blk 6M coupe if the people at www.rennlist.com are correct about Porsche dealers trying to move out the last of the 996s before the new 997s hit the floor in 4 months.).

 

I Just bought mine a month ago ( warranty ) for 3000.00, and my 01 CLK430 had 34000 miles on it , do what you want to do, the car bug is a tough bug to get rid of

 

does extended warrenty include service A/B like the original does?

 

No.

 

Chappy, I still have 1.3 left on the Orig warranty , will it still cover A/B service for second owner

 

Im going down to my local chrysler dealership this weekend to get my warranty. I bought my WRX there so they said to give them 200.00 over cost and its a done deal!

Now I will sleep at night!

 

Original warranty - yes; extended warranty - no.

 

i just hit 83000 miles the other day. I bought my car with less than 10K on it. True, the car has a lot of little problems here and there, but nothing major so far (knock on wood). So far, all I had to fix was : rear sunshade (3 times), A/C evap temp sensor, 2 front O2 sensors, mass air flow sensor, had to realign the doors twice, cd changer went bezerk, and a few more little things i can't remember off the top of my head. My car drives stronger NOW than it did when i first bought it.

 

braincuttermd - If you are the original owner and bought the car new, MBUSA covers all CLK's to 4 years, 50k miles..

 

dangeli- i believe that the 4 YR 50K mile factory warranty is given to ANY owner during that period....not just the original owner.

 

I think you are right. So either way, you're covered! HAHA!

 

LOL =)

 

A/B service is not covered under extended warranties..free scheduled maint is a separate program all together